Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Almost done embellishing and quilting the Guild Scrap Challenge quilt:

It's grown very glitzy, but I've figured out a couple of new techniques in the process so it's been worth all the glare from the glittery bits.

One thing I love about crazy quilts are the tiny details you really can't see unless you're up close. I had some leftover abalone shell pieces from another beadwork project I did, and I've been playing a lot with them. If you click on this next one and look at the larger version, the shell almost seems to float Daliesque in space.

Pretty happy with this one now. And almost to the finish line, hooray!

Friday, March 20, 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Cole now has a girlfriend. She's an older woman (eight years old, according to her owner) but very petite and ladylike. I can also hold her comfortably in the palm of one hand, so their relationship will have to remain strictly platonic:

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I quilted a couple of ATCs last week, then went back to work on the Guild Scrap Challenge quilt. So far I've done a small amount of embroidery and a lot of beadwork, experimenting here and there with some new ideas:

All the beads are leftovers from other projects, and the leaves of the bronze ribbon rose are actually the trimmings from the binding. I screwed up a few things -- the woven-thread fan isn't wide enough, and the beaded heart is off-center -- but I'm hoping the charm will outshine the errors.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A blast from the past -- the view from one of my former homes, one that survived four hurricanes in a row. That was the luckiest house I ever lived in, and I still miss seeing the sun rise over that beautiful green valley.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

There are days I wish I had a better zoom feature on the camera. This property was fenced off, so this was as close a shot as I could get of those very interesting-looking trees across this small lake.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

I had until midnight March 1st to turn in my photo of the finished project, and I sewed the last stitch in the binding at 10:46 pm. I have a couple more things I want to add with metallic thread and a little beadwork -- but it's finished enough to enter. I didn't want to miss this challenge because I do believe in recycling and using up scraps whenever possible.

I did this project all by hand, piecing, quilting, embroidery and binding. The embroidery was done with three strands of DMC floss, which is easier for me to handle but doesn't come out looking too thick or bulky (a proper crazy quilter would only use one or two strands.) The binding is some scrap leftover from another quilt, in keeping with the spirit of the challenge. It's been so long since I mitered corners by hand stitch that I had to pick out one three times before I got the fold fitted correctly.

Next project: designing an Asian-themed quilt using vintage yakuta fabric.

Added: I did get a bit of embroidery work done on this after I took these shots, my spider and cobweb can be seen today over at PBW here.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

One morning we discovered Cole barking at Lou, my daughter's favorite stuffed dog (Lou joined our family long before Cole, and has survived four hurricanes, three moves, two tornados and an accidental trip through the dryer.)

Until that moment none of us realized what a striking resemblance there is between the two dogs, so of course my daughter had to pose them together.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

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